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Bantu languages
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Bantu languages

Group of related languages belonging to the Niger-Congo family, spoken widely over the greater part of Africa south of the Sahara, including Swahili, Xhosa, and Zulu. Meaning ‘people’ in Zulu, the word Bantu itself illustrates a characteristic use of prefixes: mu-ntu ‘man’, ba-ntu ‘people’.

The Bantu-speaking peoples probably originated in northern Central Africa. Until 1978, the black people of the Republic of South Africa were officially designated Bantu(s).
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